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In this short paper, we construct a unipotent nearby cycle functor and show a p-adic analogue of Beilinson’s equivalence comparing two derived categories: the derived category of holonomic arithmetic $${\mathcal {D}}$$ -modules and the derived category of arithmetic $${\mathcal {D}}$$ -modules whose cohomologies are holonomic.

International audience; In this short paper we prove that the almost Schur theorem, introduced by De Lellis and Topping, is true on 4-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of nonnegative scalar curvature and discuss some related problems on other dimensional manifolds.

International audience; Recently, Iwahori-Hecke algebras were associated to Kac-Moody groups over non-Archimedean local fields. In a previous paper, we introduced principal series representations for these algebras and partially generalized Kato's irreducibility criterion. In this paper, we study how some of these representations decompose when they are reducible and deduce information on the irreducible representations of these algebras.

The paper is devoted to generic translation flows corresponding to Abelian differentials on flat surfaces of arbitrary genus $g\ge 2$. These flows are weakly mixing by the Avila-Forni theorem. In genus 2, the Hölder property for the spectral measures of these flows was established in our papers [10,12]. Recently Forni [17], motivated by [10], obtained Hölder estimates for spectral measures in the case of surfaces of arbitrary genus. Here we combine Forni's idea with the symbolic approach of [10] and prove Hölder regularity for spectral measures of flows on random Markov compacta, in particular, for translation flows in all genera., Corrects the formulation of Proposition 5.4 in the published version (reversed order of quantifiers); the results and proofs are unchanged, with a minor rewording

In this paper, we study the algebraic relations satisfied by the solutions of q-difference equations and their transforms with respect to an auxiliary operator. Our main tools are the parametrized Galois theories developed in Hardouin and Singer (Math Ann 342(2):333–377, 2008) and Ovchinnikov and Wibmer (Int Math Res Not 12:3962–4018, 2015). The first part of this paper is concerned with the case where the auxiliary operator is a derivation, whereas the second part deals with a $$\mathbf {q}$$ -difference operator. In both cases, we give criteria to guarantee the algebraic independence of a series, solution of a q-difference equation, with either its successive derivatives or its $$\mathbf {q}$$ -transforms. We apply our results to q-hypergeometric series.

We present a solution of the algebraic version of Birkhoff Conjecture on integrable billiards. Namely we show that every polynomially integrable real bounded convex planar billiard with smooth boundary is an ellipse. We extend this result to billiards with piecewise-smooth and not necessarily convex boundary on arbitrary two-dimensional surface of constant curvature: plane, sphere, Lobachevsky (hyperbolic) plane; each of them being modeled as a plane or a (pseudo-) sphere in $\mathbb R^3$ equipped with appropriate quadratic form. Namely, we show that a billiard is polynomially integrable, if and only if its boundary is a union of confocal conical arcs and appropriate geodesic segments. We also present a complexification of these results. These are joint results of Mikhail Bialy, Andrey Mironov and the author. The proof is split into two parts. The first part is given by Bialy and Mironov in their two joint papers. They considered the tautological projection of the boundary to $\mathbb{RP}^2$ and studied its orthogonal-polar dual curve, which is piecewise algebraic, by S.V.Bolotin's theorem. By their arguments and another Bolotin's theorem, it suffices to show that each non-linear complex irreducible component of the dual curve is a conic. They have proved that all its singularities and inflection points (if any) lie in the projectivized zero locus of the corresponding quadratic form on $\mathbb C^3$. The present paper provides the second part of the proof: we show that each above irreducible component is a conic and finish the solution of the Algebraic Birkhoff Conjecture in constant curvature., To appear in the Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS), 69 pages, 2 figures. A shorter proof of Theorem 4.24. Minor precisions and misprint corrections

We prove a long exact sequence in KK-theory for both full and reduced amalgamated free products in the presence of conditional expectations. In the course of the proof, we established the KK-equivalence between the full amalgamated free product of two unital C*-algebras and a newly defined reduced amalgamated free product that is valid even for non GNS-faithful conditional expectations. Our results unify, simplify and generalize all the previous results obtained before by Cuntz, Germain and Thomsen., V.3, the paper has been splitted into two papers, this is the first part on amalgamated free products

This paper is devoted to the abstract study of operational second-order differential equations of elliptic type with nonregular coefficient-operator boundary conditions in a non-commutative framework. The study is performed when the second member f belongs to $$L^{p}(0,1;X)$$, with general $$p\in ]1,+\infty [$$, X being a UMD Banach space. We give some new results by using semigroups and interpolation theory. Existence, uniqueness and optimal regularity of the classical and semi-classical solution are proved. This paper improves naturally the ones studied in the commutative case by Hammou et al. (Mediterr J Math, 1669–1683, 2015).

the density of the winding process in the complex projective line is worked out; International audience; In the first part of this paper, we derive explicit expressions of the semi-group densities of generalized stochastic areas arising from the Anti-de Sitter and the Hopf fibrations. Motivated by the number-theoretical connection between the Heisenberg group and Dirichlet series, we express the Mellin transform of the generalized stochastic area corresponding to the one-dimensional Anti de Sitter fibration as a series of Riemann Zeta function evaluated at integers. In the second part of the paper, we focus on winding processes around the origin in the Poincar\'e disc and in the complex projective line. More pricesely, we derive the fixed-time marginal density of the former process while we give a ultraspherical series expansion of the characteristic function of the latter.

Any germ of a complex analytic space is equipped with two natural metrics: the {\it outer metric} induced by the hermitian metric of the ambient space and the {\it inner metric}, which is the associated riemannian metric on the germ. We show that minimal surface singularities are Lipschitz normally embedded (LNE), i.e., the identity map is a bilipschitz homeomorphism between outer and inner metrics, and that they are the only rational surface singularities with this property., This paper is a major revision of the 2015 version. It now builds on the paper arXiv:1806.11240 by the same authors which gives a general characterization of Lipschitz normally embedded surface singularities

In this paper, we give explicit rates in the central limit theorem and in the almost sure invariance principle for general R d {\mathbb R}^d -valued cocycles that appear in the study of the left random walk on linear groups. Our method of proof lies on a suitable martingale approximation and on a careful estimation of some coupling coefficients linked with the underlying Markov structure. Concerning the martingale part, the available results in the literature are not accurate enough to give almost optimal rates either in the central limit theorem for the Wasserstein distance, or in the strong approximation. A part of this paper is devoted to circumvent this issue. We then exhibit near optimal rates both in the central limit theorem in terms of the Wasserstein distance and in the almost sure invariance principle for R d {\mathbb R}^d -valued martingales with stationary increments having moments of order p ∈ ( 2 , 3 ] p \in (2, 3] (the case of sequences of reversed martingale differences is also considered). Note also that, as an application of our results for general R d {\mathbb R}^d -valued cocycles, a special attention is paid to the Iwasawa cocycle and the Cartan projection for reductive Lie groups (like for instance G L d ( R ) {\mathrm {GL}}_d(\mathbb {R}) ).

Topological classification of even the simplest Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms on 3-manifolds does not fit into the concept of singling out a skeleton consisting of stable and unstable manifolds of periodic orbits. The reason for this lies primarily in the possible "wild" behaviour of separatrices of saddle points. Another difference between Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms in dimension 3 from their surface analogues lies in the variety of heteroclinic intersections: a connected component of such an intersection may be not only a point as in the two-dimensional case, but also a curve, compact or non-compact. The problem of a topological classification of Morse-Smale cascades on 3-manifolds either without heteroclinic points (gradient-like cascades) or without heteroclinic curves was solved in a series of papers from 2000 to 2006 by Ch. Bonatti, V. Grines, F. Laudenbach, V. Medvedev, E. Pecou, O. Pochinka. The present paper is devoted to a complete topological classification of the set $MS(M^3)$ of orientation preserving Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms $f$ given on smooth closed orientable 3-manifolds $M^3$. A complete topological invariant for a diffeomorphism $f\in MS(M^3)$ is an equivalent class of its scheme $S_f$, which contains an information on a periodic date and a topology of embedding of two-dimensional invariant manifolds of the saddle periodic points of $f$ into the ambient manifold., Comment: 48 pages, 15 figures

The main subject of this paper is equilibrium problems on an unbounded conductor $\Sigma$ of the complex plane in the presence of a weakly admissible external field. An admissible external field $Q$ on $\Sigma$ satisfies, along with other mild conditions, the following growth property at infinity: $$\lim_{|x| \rightarrow \infty}(Q(x) - \log |x|) = +\infty.$$ This condition guarantees the existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium measure in the presence of $Q$, and the compactness of its support. In the last 10-15 years, several papers have dealt with weakly admissible external fields, in the sense that $Q$ satisfies a weaker condition at infinity, namely, $$\exists M\in(-\infty,\infty],\quad\liminf_{|x| \rightarrow \infty}(Q(x) - \log |x|) = M.$$ Under this last assumption, there still exists a unique equilibrium measure in the external field $Q$, but the support need not be a compact subset of $\Sigma$ anymore. In most examples considered in the literature the support is indeed unbounded. Our main goal in this paper is to illustrate this topic by means of a simple class of external fields on the real axis created by a pair of attractive and repellent charges in the complex plane, and to study the dynamics of the associated equilibrium measures as the strength of the charges evolves. As one of our findings, we exhibit configurations where the support of the equilibrium measure in a weakly admissible external field is a compact subset of the real axis. To achieve our goal, we extend some results from potential theory, known for admissible external fields, to the weakly admissible case. These new results may be of independent interest. Finally, the so--called signed equilibrium measure is an important tool in our analysis. Its relationship with the (positive) equilibrium measure is also explored., Comment: To appear in Journal of Approximation Theory

Many papers are devoted to study logarithmic sheaves associated to reduced divisors, in particular logarithmic bundles associated to plane curves since forty years in differential and algebraic topology or geometry. An interesting family of these curves are the so-called free ones for which the associated logarithmic sheaf is the direct sum of two line bundles. When the curve is a finite set of distinct lines (i.e. a line arrangement), Terao conjectured thirty years ago that its freeness depends only on its combinatorics. A lot of efforts were done to prove it but at this time it is only proved up to 12 lines. If one wants to find a counter example to this conjecture a new family of curves arises naturally: the nearly free curves introduced by Dimca and Sticlaru. We prove here that the logarithmic bundle associated to a nearly free curve possesses a minimal non zero section that vanishes on one single point $P$, called jumping point, and that characterizes the bundle. Then we give a precise description of the behaviour of $P$. In particular we show, based on detailed examples, that the position of $P$ relatively to its corresponding nearly free arrangement of lines may or may not be a combinatorial invariant, depending on the chosen combinatorics., 24 pages, Comments are welcome. We improve the exposition of the paper with more details

International audience; In my paper at Inventiones 2009, we determine the cohomology of Lubin-Tate spaces globally using the comparison theorem of Berkovich by computing the fibers at supersingular points of the perverse sheaf of vanishing cycle Ψ of some Shimura variety of Kottwitz-Harris-Taylor type. The most difficult argument deals with the control of maps of the spectral sequences computing the sheaf cohomology of both Harris-Taylor perverse sheaves and those of Ψ. In this paper, we bypass these difficulties using the classical theory of representations of the mirabolic group and a simple geometric argument.; Dans [2], on détermine les groupes de cohomologie des espaces de Lubin-Tate par voie globale en calculant les fibres des faisceaux de cohomologie du faisceau pervers des cyclesévanescentscyclesévanescents Ψ d'une variété de Shimura de type Kottwitz-Harris-Taylor. L'ingrédient le plus complexe consistè a contrôler lesfì eches de deux suites spectrales calculant l'une les faisceaux de cohomologie des faisceaux pervers d'Harris-Taylor, et l'autre ceux de Ψ. Dans cet article, nous contournons ces difficultés en utilisant la théorie classique des représentations du groupe mirabolique ainsi qu'un argument géométrique simple. Abstract (Mirabolic group, ramified Newton stratification and cohomology of Lubin-Tate spaces) In [2], we determine the cohomology of Lubin-Tate spaces globally using the comparison theorem of Berkovich by computing the fibers at supersingular points of the perverse sheaf of vanishing cycle Ψ of some Shimura variety of Kottwitz-Harris-Taylor type. The most difficult argument deals with the control of maps of the spectral sequences computing the sheaf coho-mology of both Harris-Taylor perverse sheaves and those of Ψ. In this paper, we bypass these difficulties using the classical theory of representations of the mirabolic group and a simple geometric argument.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1235; International audience; A wandering domain for a diffeomorphism is an open connected set whose iterates are pairwise disjoint. We endow A^n = T^n x R^n with its usual exact symplectic structure. An integrable diffeomorphism Φ^h, i.e. the time-one map of a Hamiltonian h which depends only on the action variables, has no nonempty wandering domains. The aim of this paper is to estimate the size (measure and Gromov capacity) of wandering domains in the case of an exact symplectic perturbation of Φ^h , in the analytic or Gevrey category. Upper estimates are related to Nekhoroshev theory, lower estimates are related to examples of Arnold diffusion. This is a contribution to the "quantitative Hamiltonian perturbation theory" initiated in previous works on the optimality of long term stability estimates and diffusion times; our emphasis here is on discrete systems because this is the natural setting to study wandering domains. We first prove that the measure (or the capacity) of these wandering domains is exponentially small, with an upper bound of the form exp(-c ε^(-1/2nα)), where ε is the size of the perturbation, α is the Gevrey exponent (α is at least 1, α=1 for analytic systems) and c is some positive constant depending mildly on h. This is obtained as a consequence of an exponential stability theorem for near-integrable exact symplectic maps, in the analytic or Gevrey category, for which we give a complete proof based on the most recent improvements of Nekhoroshev theory for Hamiltonian flows, and which requires the development of specific Gevrey suspension techniques. The second part of the paper is devoted to the construction of near-integrable Gevrey systems possessing wandering domains, for which the capacity (and thus the measure) can be estimated from below. We suppose that n is at least 2, essentially because KAM theory precludes Arnold diffusion in too low a dimension. For any α>1, we produce examples with lower bounds of the form exp(-c ε^(-1/2(n-1)(α-1))). This is done by means of a "coupling" technique, involving rescaled standard maps possessing wandering discs in A and near-integrable systems possessing periodic domains of arbitrarily large periods in A^(n-1). The most difficult part of the construction consists in obtaining a perturbed pendulum-like system on A with periodic islands of arbitrarily large periods, whose areas are explicitly estimated from below. Our proof is based on a version due to Herman of the translated curve theorem.

In this paper, we establish compactness results of some class of conformally compact Einstein 4-manifolds. In the first part of the paper, we improve the earlier results obtained by Chang-Ge. In the second part of the paper, as applications, we derive some compactness results under perturbation conditions when the L^2-norm of the Weyl curvature is small. We also derive the global uniqueness of conformally compact Einstein metrics on the 4-Ball constructed in the earlier work of Graham-Lee., Comment: 28 pages

The class A of countable groups that admit a faithful, transitive, amenable –in the sense that there is an invariant mean– action on a set has been widely investigated in the past. In this paper, we no longer require the action to be transitive, but we ask for it to preserve a locally finite metric (and still to be faithful and amenable). The groups having such actions are those that embed into a totally disconnected amenable locally compact group. Then we focus on the subclass A 1 of groups for which the actions are moreover transitive. This class is strictly contained into A and includes non-amenable groups. An important particular case of actions preserving a locally finite metric is given by actions by automorphisms of locally finite connected graphs. We take this opportunity, in our partly expository paper, to review some nice results about amenable actions in this setting.

International audience; The last years have seen a growing interest from mathematicians in Mahler functions. This class of functions includes the generating series of the automatic sequences. The present paper is concerned with the following problem, which is rather frequently encountered in combinatorics: a set of Mahler functions u 1 , ..., un being given, are u 1 , ..., un and their successive derivatives algebraically independent? In this paper, we give general criteria ensuring an affirmative answer to this question. We apply our main results to the generating series attached to the so-called Baum-Sweet and Rudin-Shapiro automatic sequences. In particular, we show that these series are hyperalge-braically independent, i.e., that these series and their successive derivatives are algebraically independent. Our approach relies of the parametrized difference Galois theory (in this context, the algebro-differential relations between the solutions of a given Mahler equation are reflected by a linear differential algebraic group).

This is a continuation of a previous paper by the same authors. In the former paper, it was proved that in order to obtain local uniformization for valuations centered on local domains, it is enough to prove it for rank one valuations. In this paper, we extend this result to the case of valuations centered on rings which are not necessarily integral domains and may even contain nilpotents.

In this paper, we give a geometric expression for the multiplicities of the equivariant index of a spin-c Dirac operator., Comment: The authors have decided to divide the preprint "Multiplicities of equivariant Spin-c Dirac operators" into two separate publications. The present paper is the first of them. The other part is the preprint arXiv:1512.02367 entitled "Admissible orbits for compact Lie group"

In this paper we refine the main result of a previous paper of the author with Grimeland on derived invariants of surface algebras. We restrict to the case where the surface is a torus with one boundary component and give an easily computable derived invariant for such surface algebras. This result permits to give answers to open questions on gentle algebras: it provides examples of gentle algebras with the same AG-invariant (in the sense of Avella-Alaminos and Geiss) that are not derived equivalent and gives a partial positive answer to a conjecture due to Bobi\'nski and Malicki on gentle $2$-cycles algebras., Comment: 22 pages, a mistake concerning the computation of the mapping class group has been fixed, version 3: 25 pages, to appear in Algebras and Representation Theory

In 1980, Gizatullin classified rational surfaces endowed with an automorphism whose action on the Neron-Severi group is parabolic: these surfaces are endowed with an elliptic fibration invariant by the automorphism. The aim of this expository paper is to present for non-experts the details of Gizatullin's original proof, and to provide an introduction to a recent paper by Cantat and Dolgachev., Minor corrections

We show that the Teichmuller space of a surface without boundary and with punctures, equipped with the Thurston metric, is the limit in an appropriate sense of Teichmuller spaces of surfaces with boundary, equipped with their arc metrics, when the boundary lengths tend to zero. We use this to obtain a result on the translation distances of mapping classes for their actions on Teichmuller spaces equipped with the Thurston metric. In this paper, we show that the arc metrics on the Teichmuller space of surfaces with boundary limit to the Thurston metric on the Teichmuller space of a surface without boundary, by making the boundary lengths tend to zero. We use this to prove a result on the translation distances for mapping classes. We introduce some notation before stating precisely the results. In all this paper, S = Sg,p,n is a connected orientable surface of finite type, of genus g with p punctures and n boundary components. We assume that S has negative Euler characteristic, i.e., χ(S) = 2 − 2g − p − n 0, we denote by ∂S the boundary of S. A hyperbolic structure on S is a complete metric of constant curvature −1 such that (i) each puncture has a neighborhood isometric to a cusp, i.e., to the quotient {z = x + iy ∈ H 2 | y > a}/hz 7→z + 1i

International audience; The purpose of this paper is to push forward the theory of operator-valued Riemann-Hilbert problems and demonstrate their effectiveness in respect to the implementation of a non-linear steepest descent method a la Deift-Zhou. In this paper, we demonstrate that the operator-valued Riemann-Hilbert problem arising in the characterization of so-called c-shifted integrable integral operators allows one to extract the large-x asymptotics of the Fredholm determinant associated with such operators.

International audience; In [Séries Gevrey de type arithmétique I Théorémes de pureté et de dualité, Annals of Math. 151 (2000), 705--740], André has introduced E-operators, a class of differential operators intimately related to E-functions, and constructed local bases of solutions for these operators. In this paper we investigate the arithmetical nature of connexion constants of E-operators at finite distance, and of Stokes constants at infinity. We prove that they involve values at algebraic points of E-functions in the former case, and in the latter one, values of G-functions and of derivatives of the Gamma function at rational points in a very precise way. As an application, we define and study a class of numbers having certain algebraic approximations defined in terms of E-functions. These types of approximations are motivated by the convergents to the number e, as well as by recent constructions of approximations to Euler's constant and values of the Gamma function. Our results and methods are completely different from those in our paper [On the values of G-functions, Commentarii Math. Helv., to appear], where we have studied similar questions for G-functions.

International audience; This paper is about surfaces of infinite topological type. Unlike the case of surfaces of finite type, there are several deformation spaces associated with a surface of infinite topological type. Such spaces depend on the choice of a basepoint (that is, the choice of a fixed conformal structure or hyperbolic structure on the surface) and they also depend on the choice of a distance on the set of equivalence classes of marked hyperbolic structures. We address the question of the comparison between two deformation spaces, namely, the quasiconformal Teichmüller space and the length-spectrum Teichmüller space. There is a natural inclusion map of the quasiconformal space into the length-spectrum space, which is not always surjective.We work under the hypothesis that the basepoint (a hyperbolic surface) satisfies a condition we call ``upper-boundedness''. This means that this surface admits a pants decomposition defined by curves whose lengths are bounded above. The theory under this upper-boundedness hypothesis shows a dichotomy. On the one hand there are surfaces satisfying what we call Shiga's condition, i.e. they admit a pants decomposition defined by curves whose lengths are bounded above and below. If the base point satisfies Shiga's condition, then the inclusion of the quasiconformal space into the length-spectrum space is surjective, and it is a homeomorphism. In this paper we concentrate on the other kind of upper-bounded surfaces, which we call ``upper-bounded with short interior curves''. This means that the corresponding hyperbolic surface admits a pants decomposition defined by curves whose lengths are bounded above, and such that the lenghts of some interior curves approach zero. We show that in this case the behavior is completely different. Under this hypothesis, the image of the inclusion between the two Teichmüller spaces is nowhere dense in the length-spectrum space. As a corollary of the methods used, we obtain an explicit parametrization of the length-spectrum Teichmüller space in terms of Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates and we prove that the length-spectrum Teichmüller space is path-connected.

In this paper we continue the study (initiated in a previous article) of linear Koszul duality, a geometric version of the standard duality between modules over symmetric and exterior algebras. We construct this duality in a very general setting, and prove its compatibility with morphisms of vector bundles and base change., Comment: Final version, to appear in JLMS. The numbering differs from the published version, and is the one used in our papers [MR2] and [MR3] from the bibliography

The second part of the paper mainly deals with convergence of infinite determinantal measures, understood as the convergence of the approximating finite determinantal measures. In addition to the usual weak topology on the space of probability measures on the space of configurations, we also consider the weak topology on the space of finite measures on the space of finite measures on the half-line, used via the natural immersion, well-defined almost surely with respect to the infinite Bessel point process, of the space of configurations into the space of finite measures on the half-line. The main results of the second part are sufficient conditions for tightness of families of determinantal measures, for convergence of sequences of induced proceses, as well as for sequences of finite-dimensional perturbations of determinantal processes., Comment: 20 pages. This is the second paper in the series of three stemming from the preprint arXiv:1312.3161

The main results of this paper are limit theorems for horocycle flows on compact surfaces of constant negative curvature. One of the main objects of the paper is a special family of horocycle-invariant finitely-additive Hoelder measures on rectifiable arcs. An asymptotic formula for ergodic integrals for horocycle flows is obtained in terms of the finitely-additive measures, and limit theorems follow as a corollary of the asymptotic formula. The objects and results of this paper are similar to those in [15], [16], [4] and [5] for translation flows on flat surfaces. The arguments are based on the classification of invariant distributions for horocycle flows established in [12]., 52 pages

In this paper we investigate operators unitarily equivalent to trun- cated Toeplitz operators. We show that this class contains certain sums of tensor products of truncated Toeplitz operators. In particular, it contains arbitrary inflations of truncated Toeplitz operators; this answers a question posed in (4). model spaces, are a generalization of the operators associated with Toeplitz matri- ces. They are introduced and discussed in great detail in a recent survey paper by Sarason (10). Some special cases have appeared long ago in the literature: the model operators for contractions with defect number one as well as their commutant are truncated Toeplitz operators with analytic symbols (see, for instance, (9, 11, 8)). This is a new area of study, and many simple questions remain open. The basic reference for this subject is (10), subsequent work is done in (4, 6, 3, 2).

Let $G=\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{C})$. We construct an element of $G$-equivariant $K$-homology from the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand complex for $G$. This furnishes an explicit splitting of the restriction map from the Kasparov representation ring $R(G)$ to the representation ring $R(K)$ of its maximal compact subgroup, and the splitting factors through the equivariant $K$-homology of the flag variety of $G$. In particular, we obtain a new model for the gamma element of $G$. The proof makes extensive use of earlier results of the author concerning harmonic analysis of longitudinal psuedodifferential operators on the flag variety., Comment: Complete rewrite. Paper has been rewritten to take advantage of the paper "Products of Longitudinal Pseudodifferential Operators on Flag Varieties" (at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2009.10.007). Also added a result concerning order zero longitudinal pseudodifferential operators tangent to the fibrations of the flag variety of SL(3,C) -- Theorem 3.18

This paper explains the recent developments on the symplectic theory of Hamiltonian completely integrable systems on symplectic 4-manifolds, compact or not. One fundamental ingredient of these developments has been the understanding of singular affine structures. These developments make use of results obtained by many authors in the second half of the twentieth century, notably Arnold, Duistermaat and Eliasson, of which we also give a concise survey. As a motivation, we present a collection of remarkable results proven in the early and mid 1980s in the theory of Hamiltonian Lie group actions by Atiyah, Guillemin-Sternberg and Delzant among others, and which inspired many people, including the authors, to work on more general Hamiltonian systems. The paper concludes discussing a spectral conjecture for quantum integrable systems., 40 pages

In this paper, we study the maximal stable domains on minimal and constant mean curvature 1 1 catenoids in hyperbolic space. In particular we investigate whether half-vertical catenoids are maximal stable domains (Lindelöf’s property). Our motivation comes from Lindelöf’s 1870 paper on catenoids in Euclidean space.

In this paper, building among others on earlier works by U. Krause and C. Zahlten (dealing with the case of cyclic groups), we obtain a new upper bound for the little cross number valid in the general case of arbitrary finite Abelian groups. Given a finite Abelian group, this upper bound appears to depend only on the rank and on the number of distinct prime divisors of the exponent. The main theorem of this paper allows us, among other consequences, to prove that a classical conjecture concerning the cross and little cross numbers of finite Abelian groups holds asymptotically in at least two different directions., Comment: 21 pages, to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics

This arXived paper has two independant parts, that are improved and corrected versions of different parts of a single paper once named "On equations in relatively hyperbolic groups". The first part is entitled "Existential questions in (relatively) hyperbolic groups". We study there the existential theory of torsion free hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups, in particular those with virtually abelian parabolic subgroups. We show that the satisfiability of systems of equations and inequations is decidable in these groups. In the second part, called "Finding relative hyperbolic structures", we provide a general algorithm that recognizes the class of groups that are hyperbolic relative to abelian subgroups.

The paper introduces the notion of skew-evolution semiflows and presents the concept of pointwise trichotomy in the case of skew-evolution semiflows on a Banach space. The connection with the classic notion of trichotomy presented by us in a previous paper in 2006 for evolution operators, is also emphasized, as well as some characterizations. The approach of the theory is from uniform point of view. The study can also be extended to systems with control whose state evolution can be described by skew-evolution semiflows.

International audience; For a principal type pseudodifferential operator, we prove that condition (psi) implies local solvability with a loss of 3/2 derivatives. We use many elements of Dencker's paper on the proof of the Nirenberg-Treves conjecture and we provide some improvements of the key energy estimates which allows us to cut the loss of derivatives from 2 (Dencker's result) to 3/2 (the present paper). It is already known that condition (psi) does not imply local solvability with a loss of 1 derivative, so we have to content ourselves with a loss >1.

A first aim of this paper is to answer, in the case of real ruled surfaces $X_l$ of base $\mathbb{C}P^1$, with $l \geq 2$, a question of V. A. Rokhlin: is it true that the equivariant isotopy class does not suffice to distinguish the connected components of the space of smooth real algebraic curves of $X_l$? A second aim is to prove that there exist in these surfaces some real schemes realized by real flexible curves but not by smooth real algebraic curves. These two results of real algebraic geometry are deduced from the following comparison theorem: when $m = l + 2k$, with $k > 0$, the discriminants of the surface $X_m$ are deduced from those of the surface $X_l$ via weighted homotheties. All these results are obtained from a study of a deformation of ruled surfaces.The paper is written in French.2000 Mathematical Subject Classification: 14H10, 14J26, 14P25.

The present paper is related to a conjecture made by Green and Lazarsfeld concerning 1-linear syzygies of curves embedded by complete linear systems of sufficiently large degrees. Given a smooth, irreducible, complex, projective curve $X$, we prove that the least integer $q$ for which the property $(M_q)$ fails for a line bundle $L$ on $X$ does not depend on $L$ as soon as its degree becomes sufficiently large. Consequently, this number is an invariant of the curve, and the statement of Green-Lazarsfeld's conjecture is equivalent to saying that this invariant equals the gonality of the curve. We verify the conjecture for plane curves, curves lying on Hirzebruch surfaces, and for generic curves having the genus sufficiently large compared to the gonality. We conclude the paper by proving that Green's canonical conjecture holds for curves lying on Hirzebruch surfaces., to appear in Math. Z

We introduce a model of the hyperbolic plane which arises from Thurston's ideas on best Lipschitz maps between surfaces. More precisely, we apply Thurston's theory to the space of Euclidean triangles. We prove that the Lipschitz constant of the unique affine map between two Euclidean triangles induces a metric on the set of isometry classes of the triangles with area 1/ 2. We then prove that this space of triangles together with 2 times its natural metric is isometric to the hyperbolic plane. Our construction is simple and natural and it makes relations between several geometrical ideas. This paper will appear in the journal Expositiones Mathematicae.

We review the recent proof of the N.Takahashi's conjecture on genus $0$ Gromov-Witten invariants of $(\mathbb{P}^2, E)$, where $E$ is a smooth cubic curve in the complex projective plane $\mathbb{P}^2$. The main idea is the use of the algebraic notion of scattering diagram as a bridge between the world of Gromov-Witten invariants of $(\mathbb{P}^2, E)$ and the world of moduli spaces of coherent sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^2$. Using this bridge, the N.Takahashi's conjecture can be translated into a manageable question about moduli spaces of coherent sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^2$. This survey is based on a three hours lecture series given as part of the Beijing-Zurich moduli workshop in Beijing, 9-12 September 2019., Comment: Expository paper. 18 pages, 1 figure

Version incluant des corrections mineures à la version publiée. Ajout d'une note à la fin.; International audience; This paper is a continuation of the papers "Moduli spaces of decomposable morphims of sheaves and quotients by non-reductive groups" and "Espace abstraits de morphismes et mutations". I show here that the method used in the first paper to construct moduli spaces of morphisms and the one used in the second paper to extend the results of the first are particular cases of a more general method of construction of algebraic quotients. It is based on the notion of quasi-isomorphism. Let G, G' algebraic groups acting on algebraic varieties X, X' respectively. A quasi-morphism is a map $X/G\longrightarrow X'/G'$ that can be everywhere locally lifted to morphisms from open subsets of X to X' (plus some additional technical conditions...). A quasi-isomorphism is a quasi-morphism which is bijective and whose inverse is also a quasi-morphism. If there is a quasi-isomorphism between X and X'it is possible to deduce the existence of algebraic quotients of open subsets of X from the existence of quotients of the corresponding open subsets of X'. The method used to construct moduli spaces of morphisms is extended in this paper to complexes of decomposables sheaves.

In this paper we establish an unbounded version of the integral representation theorem by Buttazzo and Dal Maso [see Buttazzo Dal Maso (Nonlinear Anal 9(6):515–532, 1985) and also Bouchitte et al. (Arch Ration Mech Anal 165(3), 187–242, 2002)]. More precisely, we prove an integral representation theorem (with a formula for the integrand) for functionals defined on $$W^{1,p}$$ with $$p>N$$ (N being the dimension) that do not satisfy a standard p-growth condition from above and can take infinite values. Applications to $$\Gamma $$ -convergence, relaxation and homogenization are also developed.

We study the Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric functions associated to a root system of type $BC$ and a multiplicity function which is allowed to assume some non-positive values (a standard multiplicity function). For such functions, we obtain positivity properties and sharp estimates which imply a characterization of the bounded hypergeometric functions. As an application, our results extend known properties of Harish-Chandra's spherical functions on Riemannian symmetric spaces of the non-compact type $G/K$ to spherical functions over homogeneous vector bundles on $G/K$ which are associated to certain small $K-$types., Comment: The present paper subsumes and extends the results of the preprint arXiv:1705.00277. With respect to arXiv:2008.00337: Corrected Proposition 3.5. Some computations added in Appendix B

In this paper, we provide asymptotic upper bounds on the complexity in two (closely related) situations. We confirm for the total doubling coverings and not only for the chains the expected bounds of the form [Formula: see text] This is done in a rather general setting, i.e. for the [Formula: see text]-complement of a polynomial zero-level hypersurface [Formula: see text] and for the regular level hypersurfaces [Formula: see text] themselves with no assumptions on the singularities of [Formula: see text]. The coefficient [Formula: see text] is the ambient dimension [Formula: see text] in the first case and [Formula: see text] in the second case. However, the question of a uniform behavior of the coefficient [Formula: see text] remains open. As a second theme, we confirm in arbitrary dimension the upper bound for the number of a-charts covering a real semi-algebraic set [Formula: see text] of dimension [Formula: see text] away from the [Formula: see text]-neighborhood of a lower dimensional set [Formula: see text], with bound of the form [Formula: see text] holding uniformly in the complexity of [Formula: see text]. We also show an analogue for level sets with parameter away from the [Formula: see text]-neighborhood of a low dimensional set. More generally, the bounds are obtained also for real subanalytic and real power-subanalytic sets.

After Hölder proved his classical theorem about the Gamma function, there has been a whole bunch of results showing that solutions to linear difference equations tend to be hypertranscendental (i.e., they cannot be solution to an algebraic differential equation). In this paper, we obtain the first complete results for solutions to general linear difference equations associated with the shift operator x ↦ x + h x\mapsto x+h ( h ∈ C ∗ h\in \mathbb {C}^* ), the q q -difference operator x ↦ q x x\mapsto qx ( q ∈ C ∗ q\in \mathbb {C}^* not a root of unity), and the Mahler operator x ↦ x p x\mapsto x^p ( p ≥ 2 p\geq 2 integer). The only restriction is that we constrain our solutions to be expressed as (possibly ramified) Laurent series in the variable x x with complex coefficients (or in the variable 1 / x 1/x in some special case associated with the shift operator). Our proof is based on the parametrized difference Galois theory initiated by Hardouin and Singer. We also deduce from our main result a general statement about algebraic independence of values of Mahler functions and their derivatives at algebraic points.

This paper constructs a combinatorial model for all postcritically finite rational maps arising as the Newton's method of a complex polynomial. This model is used in [LMS] to give a combinatorial classification of postcritically finite Newton maps of any degree.

Let $C$ be a hyperelliptic curve of genus $g\geq 3$. In this paper we give a new geometric description of the theta map for moduli spaces of rank 2 semistable vector bundles on $C$ with trivial determinant. In order to do this, we describe a fibration of (a birational model of) the moduli space, whose fibers are GIT quotients $(\mathbb{P}^1)^{2g}//PGL(2)$. Then, we identify the restriction of the theta map to these GIT quotients with some explicit degree two osculating projection. As a corollary of this construction, we obtain a birational inclusion of a fibration in Kummer $(g-1)$-folds over $\mathbb{P}^g$ inside the ramification locus of the theta map., Comment: 22 pages, 1 figure. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1802.00654

Let $G$ be a locally compact Polish group. A metrizable $G$-flow $Y$ is called model-universal if by considering the various invariant probability measures on $Y$, we can recover every free action of $G$ on a standard Lebesgue space up to isomorphism. Weiss has shown that for countable $G$, there exists a minimal, model-universal flow. In this paper, we extend this result to all locally compact Polish groups., Comment: 13 pages